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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neocon who wrote (20033)6/2/2000 2:26:00 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
Here's an issue for Bush to exploit - CEDAW

The Clinton administration will push for Senate approval of a United Nations treaty used to promote legal prostitution in China, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala said yesterday.

A U.N. committee recently ordered China to allow women to sell their bodies as "sex workers." The order, issued by the body that will oversee the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, calls prostitution a "reproductive right" over one's body.

The treaty has 165 signatories - including China - with the United States the sole Western Hemisphere holdout.

Miss Shalala said she saw no inconsistency in the Clinton administration's efforts to overcome Senate opposition to the treaty and to end global sex trafficking.

Asked whether the United States endorsed the instruction to China by the U.N. committee that implements the treaty, Miss Shalala responded firmly, "No."

Asked why the U.N. committee issued the instruction for China to legalize prostitution, Miss Shalala said, "You'll have to ask them. We're not on the committee."

Miss Shalala seemed frustrated by questions about the U.N. CEDAW committee's instruction to China to legalize prostitution.

"Anyone want to talk about Fiji?" she asked as questions were raised.

washtimes.com
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